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GuestWe have rebounded from the dark days of 2008 and 2009. SVB’s loan portfolio has tripled from $4 billion in 2009 to $12 billion this year. But from my vantage point, I see more rainbows and unicorns than bubbles.

Predictive lead scoring — ranking sales leads based on likelihood to buy — is nothing new, and companies such as Infer, Lattice Engines, and Salesfusion have been offering tools for this for some time now.

Answers.com is no longer just a Q&A hub. The company now operates as a cloud-based platform that sells its Q&A service to other sites — and it just acquired customer experience analytics firm ForeSee to flesh out its software offerings.

At VentureBeat, we come across a lot of funding news every day. In order to bring you the most information possible, we’re rounding up the quick-and-dirty details for the funding deals of the day and serving them up here in our new “Funding daily” column. Get your daily dose of deals every evening and stay on top of the hottest startups in Silicon Valley and beyond.